Dacia

© Hajdu Tamas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_Dacia

Data store

http://www.ejc.net/resources/featured/the_guardian_data_store/

Satan

The BBC's portrayal of Rupert Murdoch through the ages from Adam Curtis's fantastic blog.

Lost Capa

http://www.behance.net/gallery/THE-MEXICAN-SUITCASE/1062707

How to pitch

Richard Morgan recounts his seven years as a freelance writer.


hi editor,

i'm excited to work with you on any innovative new projects you're planning. specifically, i'm looking to be involved in something that takes public data that nobody else has noticed and lays out a broad, complicated, everyday, powerfully subtle truth relating to shocking, poignant human dramas. something intellectual and breezy with a real red-meat statistical core that's garnished with fun, topical pop culture references. something that brings ordinary people's deepest private fears and anxieties and taboos into sharp relief in a way they feel comfortable sharing and being photographed for — but also something i can infuse with celebrities' and other power players' candid, vulnerable, insightful epiphanies that i'd like to draw out of 20-minute phone conversations. so… ideally, i'd like to do this at $1/word in about 300 or 400 words, not including captions for the online slideshow or any part of the audio and video supplements i'll put together as well. i'd only need a week or so to file this.

thanks again for this opportunity. i'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.

best,

writer

explainer.net

George Orwell's Politics and the English Language introduced the five golden rules of writing beloved of journalism textbooks:

Andrew Marr revisited the text 50 years later in Words and things. Though its now 13 years old itself it still has a lot of relevant points about the use of language.

The hacks are dead, long live the hacks

Tools for next generation journalists

Some videos on the future of journalism conference 2010

Internet manifesto on how journalism works today

More of the same

Meanwhile the Independent's new title I  gives you your cake and eats it - Brevity and depth ...

Black Sea tour

Romanian journalists Stefan Candea (writer) and  Petrut Calinescu (photographer) are taking a three month journey for their Around the Black Sea project .

In the news

Via word magazine.

Maybe Journalism

NY Times article